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261. AHRQ’s Research and Tools Help Transform Delivery of Primary Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2022 - improved the delivery of heart healthcare in four important areas: Counseling on aspirin use among high-risk … support provided to mostly small, rural practices in North Carolina reduced 10-year cardiovascular risk … for patients at high risk of a stroke or heart attack by using a risk-stratified, population management

262. Prioritization Worksheet (pdf file)
     pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/qitoolkit/combined/c1_combo_prioritizationworksheetinstructions.pdf
     June 05, 2016 - In column E, “Volume of Cases at Risk,” indicate the annual volume of each PSI, IQI, and/or PDI event … Patients who experience adverse events often tend to have more comorbidities and other risk factors … Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety 2 Tool C.1 costs and risk … To determine this number, for each PSI, IQI, and/or PDI, multiply column E, “Volume of Cases at Risk … the best way by which executives can review the execution of projects, identify gaps, and spot new risks

263. Improving Patient Safety in Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - increase knowledge and create tools that help healthcare providers reduce patient safety events in high-risk … settings of care, where the complexity of the system and the fragility of the patients creates a greater risk … Continuing with his focus to improve patient safety in complex and high-risk healthcare environments, … grant to study and develop processes to boost decisionmaking and problem solving in a range of high-risk … Fairbanks describes, hospital EDs are high-risk, fast-paced environments involving coordination and shared

264. Comparison Tables for Making Healthcare Safer Reports | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - Health System , the seminal National Academy of Medicine report that elevated awareness of longstanding risks … Preventing Adverse Drug Events Summary of Evidence Update (Not reviewed) Protocols for High-Risk … MHS III (2020) Safety Culture (Not reviewed) (Not reviewed) Summary of Evidence   Alarm Risk … Miscommunications (Not reviewed) Summary of Evidence (Not reviewed) Identifying Patients at Risk

265. The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Strategies to Put Patients at the Center of Primary Care. (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2011 - support includes design, and research may miss the mark, resulting in system- helping all patients reduce risk … should be based on evidence of increased value. provider what is personally important to them about the risks

266. The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Strategies to Put Patients at the Center of Primary Care. (pdf file)
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     February 01, 2011 - support includes design, and research may miss the mark, resulting in system- helping all patients reduce risk … should be based on evidence of increased value. provider what is personally important to them about the risks

267. The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Strategies to Put Patients at the Center of Primary Care | PCMH Resource Center
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     February 01, 2011 - This support includes helping all patients reduce risk factors, as well as helping patients with chronic … treatment options; discuss with a health care provider what is personally important to them about the risks

268. Designing and Delivering Whole-Person Transitional Care: The Hospital Guide to Reducing Medicaid Readmissions - Toolbox (pdf file)
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     July 28, 2016 - Care Planning This tool provides discharge planners with a set of prompts to identify readmission risks … and to take steps to ensure those risks are addressed in the transitional Day-to-day readmission … Description This tool provides discharge planners with a set of prompts to identify readmission risks … and to take steps to ensure those risks are addressed in the transitional care (discharge) plan. … Accessed July 28, 2016. 2 WHOLE-PERSON CARE TRANSITIONAL PLANNING TOOL Readmission Risks and

269. Module 1: Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Modules: Applying Safety Principles: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Slide 18: Understanding Risk and Human Behavior 1 Say: Just Culture helps us understand risk and … At-risk behavior—Choosing to behave in a way that increases risk, where risk is not recognized or is … Slide 19: Managing Error and Risk 1 Say: To improve outcomes, human error, at-risk behavior, and … At-risk behavior is an active choice to engage in risky activity through a belief that the risk was either … for healthy, risk-reducing choices.

270. Mississippi Hospital Reduces Patient Falls by 25 Percent Using AHRQ Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Chris Myers, R.N., B.S.N., the hospital’s risk manager and patient safety officer, explained that use … Myers said AHRQ’s program emphasizes the importance of accurately assessing the risk of falls for patients … “There had been some confusion as to whether identifying patients as ‘low fall risk’ was actually the … most accurate risk level for most patients,” he explained.

271. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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     May 20, 2016 - of stay, subsequent surgeries and incisional herniation.2,3 • Proper identification of patients at risk … Though many risk factors are non-modifiable, there are factors that can be addressed by hospitals, such … Determine risk factors for postoperative wound dehiscence and identify patients at risk.1-3,7 Reduce … • Educate patient about risk factors of noncompliance with postoperative instructions. … Abdominal wound dehiscence in adults: development and validation of a risk model.

272. The SHARE Approach—Achieving Patient-Centered Care with Shared Decisionmaking: A Brief for Administrators and Practice Leaders | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2020 - Improves accurate risk perceptions of possible benefits and harms among patients. … of conditions, patients are less likely to opt for invasive procedures when fully informed about the risks … randomized trial conducted in the Netherlands that addressed shared decisionmaking for women at high risk

273. Platelet-Rich Plasma for Wound Care: Technology Assessment (pdf file)
     pcmh.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/ta/prp/prp-wound-care.pdf
     September 17, 2020 - autologous PRP demonstrated a statistically significant increase in complete wound closure or healing (Relative … We extracted or calculated relative risk (RR) and corresponding 95 percent confidence intervals for … or unclear risk of bias. … small (<300) or the confidence intervals included substantial benefits and harms (defined as 0.25 relative … risk reduction or increase).

274. Reducing Patient Falls with Evidence-based Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - To use it, clinicians determine a hospital patient’s risk of falling and develop a tailored falls prevention … Then hospital staff talk to patients as part of routine care at the bedside about their risk for falling … the most feasible falls prevention strategies for a community-based patient using three individual risk … factors: mobility limitations; medications that can increase the risk of falling; and osteoporosis.

275. How To Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention Practices
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     December 03, 2012 - Performance of care planning that addresses each risk factor identified during fall risk factor assessment … Ensure that known risk factors for falls are assessed. … Page 78 ‹#› Care Planning Assessment All risk factors identified on the fall risk factor assessment … that care plans address all areas of risk. ‹#› Assessment of Care Plan Performance See the sample … A care plan addressing every deficit on the fall risk factor assessment has been developed and is being

276. Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit (doc file)
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     August 31, 2017 - Generally, a score of 18 or less indicates at-risk status. … factors and 1-3 for the last risk factor. … Generally, a score of 14 or less indicates at-risk status. … Use: Individualize the care plan to address the needs of at-risk patients. … PRESSURE ULCER RISK ASSESSMENT CASE STUDY Mr.

277. System-Focused Event Investigation and Analysis Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     August 01, 2022 - Individual is not educated about potential risk and sees no value in established policies to prevent … Manage by: Removing incentives for at-risk behaviors. … Educate about potential risks. Redesign of system factors. … Risk management. … J Healthc Risk Manag. 2013;33(2):11-20. What are the Outputs from the Solutions Meeting?

278. EvidenceNOW: North Carolina Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - they need to help their patients adopt the ABCS of cardiovascular disease prevention: Aspirin in high-risk … and almost one-third of deaths are caused by CVD (the CVD mortality rate is 251 per 100,000). 2 CVD risk … Over 90 percent of practices have access to CVD risk stratification tools. … ASCVD Risk Estimator Update 2014. … http://tools.acc.org/ASCVD-Risk-Estimator/#page_about http://www.implementationscience.com/content/

279. EvidenceNOW: New York City Cooperative | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     pcmh.ahrq.gov/evidencenow/projects/heart-health/about/cooperatives/nyc.html
     March 01, 2021 - need to help their patients adopt the ABCS of cardiovascular disease prevention: A spirin in high-risk … Heart disease is the primary cause of death in the city, and prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk … support ABCS-driven care Three expert webinars on topics related to evidence-based management of CVD risk … care practices [AcademyHealth, 2017] Using Practice Facilitation in primary care settings to reduce risk … Medicine, Population Health Summit, 2016] Using Practice Facilitation in primary care settings to reduce risk

280. Module 1: Using the Comprehensive Long-Term Care Safety Modules: Applying Safety Principles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - Slide 18: Understanding Risk and Human Behavior 1 Human Error: Inadvertently completing the wrong … At-Risk Behavior: Choosing to behave in a way that increases risk where risk is not recognized, or … Reckless Behavior: Choosing to consciously disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk. 1. … Slide 19: Managing Error and Risk 1 Human Error At-Risk Behavior Reckless Behavior … believed insignificant or justified Manage through: Removal of incentives for at-risk behaviors